Yojimbo

MUST END SEPTEMBER 9

“Kurosawa has made the first great shaggy-man movie. YOJIMBO is a glorious comedy-satire of force: the story of a bodyguard who kills the bodies he is hired to guard.”– Pauline Kael

“Kurosawa knew and loved American westerns, but deploying their conventions in feudal Japan he utterly transformed them—to our utter fascination and delight.”– Richard Schickel, TIME

The incomparable Toshiro Mifune stars in Akira Kurosawa’s visually stunning and darkly comic YOJIMBO. To rid a terror-stricken village of corruption, wily masterless samurai Sanjuro turns a range war between two evil clans to his own advantage. Remade twice, by Sergio Leone and Walter Hill, this exhilarating genre-twister remains one of the most influential and entertaining films of all time.

Part of Kurosawa Restored